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Pierre Adam
Pierre Adam (Pierre Louis Eugène Adam, 1924–2012) was a French track cyclist and AC Boulogne-Billancourt member who won gold in the men's team pursuit at the 1948 London Olympics, his only Games; third in the 1950 French individual pursuit championship.
Pierre Agostini
Pierre Agostini, born 1941 in Tunis, is a French physicist and Ohio State emeritus professor who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for attosecond light pulses.
Pierre Aigrain
Pierre Aigrain (1924–2002) was a French physicist who pioneered French semiconductor research, founded the École normale supérieure solid-state physics laboratory, and presented the semiconductor laser principle in 1958.
Pierre Alain Schnegg
Pierre Alain Schnegg is a Swiss People's Party politician who has served on the Executive Council of the Canton of Bern since 2016, heading its health directorate.
Pierre Amarenco
Pierre Amarenco is a French neurologist and stroke researcher, Professor at Paris University, who founded the stroke center and SOS-TIA clinic at Bichat hospital in Paris.
Pierre and Jean
Pierre and Jean (Pierre et Jean) is a short psychological novel by Guy de Maupassant, published in 1888, about two brothers in Le Havre. Its preface, "Le Roman", is a noted essay on realist fiction.
Pierre Armand Jacquet
Pierre Armand Jacquet (1906–1967) was a French chemical engineer and metallurgist who discovered electrolytic polishing in 1929, known as the Jacquet method, and named the Jacquet layer.
Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory in Mendoza Province, Argentina is the world's largest detector for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, combining 1,660 water-Cherenkov tanks over 3,000 km² with 27 fluorescence telescopes since 2004.
Pierre Baldi
Pierre Baldi is a computer scientist and Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine known for applying deep learning to biology, physics, and chemistry, including the DeepCubeA Rubik's Cube solver.
Pierre Balmain
Pierre Balmain (1914-1982) was a French couturier who founded the Balmain house in Paris in 1945, created the Jolie Madame style and New French Style, dressed stars and royalty, and led the house until his death.
Pierre Baugniet
Pierre Baugniet (1925-1981), Belgian pair skater with Micheline Lannoy; 1948 Olympic pairs champion at St. Moritz, 1947 and 1948 World champion, 1947 European champion; won Belgium's first Winter Olympic gold.
Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bayle (died 1706) was a French Protestant philosopher who fled to Rotterdam in 1681, where he wrote the Dictionnaire historique et critique, called the Arsenal of the Enlightenment.
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a Norman ship captain and privateer in the service of Louis XIII who took Saint-Christophe and Martinique, founding the French Antilles.
Pierre Bergé
Pierre Bergé was a French businessman who co-founded the house of Yves Saint Laurent in 1961, ran its business side for four decades, and later campaigned for AIDS research and gay rights.
Pierre Berton
Pierre Berton (1920–2004) was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and popular historian who wrote about 50 books on Canadian history and won three Governor General's Awards.
Pierre Bezukhov
Pierre Bezukhov (Пьер Безухов), full name Pyotr Kirillovich Bezukhov, is the central male character of Tolstoy's War and Peace: an illegitimate, French-educated heir who marries Hélène Kuragina, joins the Freemasons, survives 1812 captivity, and marries Natasha Rostova.
Pierre Biard
Pierre Biard (1567 or 1568 – 1622) was a French Jesuit priest who, with Énemond Massé, led the first Jesuit mission in Acadia at Port-Royal in 1611.
Pierre Bivas
Pierre Bivas is a French energy entrepreneur and Corps des Mines engineer who co-founded Voltalis in Paris in 2006, Europe's first large-scale residential demand-response company.
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was a French painter and lithographer, a founding member of the Nabis known for intimate domestic interiors, nudes, and landscapes in luminous, intensely worked color.
Pierre Bornard
Pierre Bornard is a French electric power engineer who was deputy chief executive of RTE, chaired the ENTSO-E board, and joined the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (1925–2016), French composer and conductor of total serialism (Structures, Le marteau sans maître); founder of IRCAM and the Ensemble Intercontemporain; led the New York Philharmonic and BBC Symphony.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), French sociologist at the Collège de France (1982-2001), creator of habitus, capital, and field theory; formed in Algeria (1955-1960), central to social reproduction and educational inequality analysis, subject of critiques of determinism and tautology.
Pierre Bouvier
Pierre Bouvier (Pierre Charles Bouvier), born 1979, is the Canadian lead vocalist and lyricist of pop-punk band Simple Plan, formerly of Reset, known for Welcome to My Life and 10 million records sold.
Pierre Brunet
Pierre Brunet (1902-1991), French figure skater, pairs gold with wife Andrée at 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, France's first winter gold; also a 1932 Olympic rower of the same name.
Pierre Buyoya
Pierre Buyoya (1949–2020) was a Burundian Tutsi officer and politician who served twice as President of Burundi, from 1987 to 1993 and 1996 to 2003.
Pierre Cahuc
Pierre Cahuc is a French labor economist and professor of economics at Sciences Po since 2018, known for research on unemployment insurance, short-time work, and wage bargaining.
Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Cardin (1922 to 2020), was a French fashion designer who founded his Paris couture house in 1950 and defined 1960s Space Age fashion.
Pierre Cardin (brand)
Pierre Cardin is a Parisian fashion house founded in 1950 by Italian-born French couturier Pierre Cardin, a leading name of 1960s Space Age fashion known for the 1954 bubble dress.
Pierre Cartier (mathematician)
Pierre Cartier (1932–2024) was a French mathematician whose name is attached to Cartier divisors, the Cartier isomorphism, and Cartier duality, and who belonged to Bourbaki from 1955 to 1983.
Pierre Casiraghi
Pierre Rainier Stefano Casiraghi is a Monegasque businessman and sailor, the younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, and eighth in line to the Monegasque throne.